Good Morning

A sojourner - one who spends a day’s journey under the sun.

I’ll tell you a secret: before I became a teacher, before I became a nurse, before I became a musician, I travelled to a small beach town in TX to explore a journalism school.

I set up a tour and planned to meet with professors. I remember being excited and with the smell of the salt air in my mind accompanying the hopes of this new life - I remember excitement.

But the my ride said “let’s go home early”

I was sad but powerless. I kept thinking that my ride was just jealous because I found a light in this world where they could not.

So I went home without a fight and cancelled my plans. I remember on the way home my ride mocking my choice of degree Corporate Communications “that’s a contradiction.”

of course, I got the music degree, the nursing degree and the teaching certificate.

Maybe corporate communications is a contradiction, a stupid road, and a fool’s hope. I made a massive difference in the world as a musician, nurse and now a teacher. I even got 2 years to operate as a professional podcaster in that time.

So here is my secret: 🤐 I ended up going back to that beach town and getting my nursing degree, meeting my wife, raising my children and not once did I go back to explore that journalism school.

Instead, I explored a lot more, I mean, I had a very full life in that city. I collected so many stories. So maybe I didn’t get a job in communication but now I see I was becoming who I am.

we are not so much what we do but how we do it. No matter my trade, or career, I communicate. I journal. I am a sojourner.

blessed are the eyes that find beauty every where they look and the ears that hear a story in every one they meet.

May your story continue